• The city of Rincon and its fire department gets a laurel for providing a top-notch training facility for its firefighters. The fire-training structure should give local firefighters the right experience in a number of different building types and rescues. A well-trained department can only be a good thing, both for the safety of the residents and their property, and the firefighters themselves. Good job.

• We weren’t sure we’d ever live to see the day, but here it is. Augusta National Golf Club has added its first female members to its private club and deserves a laurel for doing so. Let’s hope these first two women, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina businesswoman Darla Moore, are just the first of many women invited to become members.

• The sheriff’s office gets a laurel this week too for its work to keep Effingham County children safe. The office got on board with a safety initiative to encourage drivers to stop for school buses. Deputies rode on school buses and followed buses this week, handing out seven tickets in just one day. State officials said 11 Georgia children have been killed since 1995 when either getting on or off buses. The sheriff’s office has said officers will continue to ride buses at random times throughout the school year. We hope drivers finally get the message.

• Effingham Health System has a laurel coming its way for the hard work and commitment it took for the hospital to receive Level IV trauma center status. The certification means more patients can be treated closer to home and is good news in several ways for those who have taken ill or have been injured. Beyond the treatment available in the ER, keeping Effingham County’s ambulances inside the county lines — instead of traveling to a Savannah hospital — translates into quicker response times for those in need. And that is really good news.

DARTS

• We have to throw a dart at the four guys who ambushed — and shot at — a pizza delivery guy. It wasn’t exactly a brightest move for more than one reason. Just how much money did they think they could get from a pizza delivery guy? This quartet of tough guys, that also included a 15-year-old, ordered a pizza and were then lying in wait for the delivery. The address turned out to be for a vacant house and the pizza man — obviously much brighter than the robbers — was quick to realize something wasn’t right. If he hadn’t, the shot fired into his car might have hit more than a pizza box. The robbers were arrested shortly after their crime and will now have some time to ponder where they went wrong. Maybe they can figure it out.